Overview

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Course Description

The Bachelor of Arts (Humanities) is a flexible, dynamic degree that allows you to tailor your studies to suit your personal interests and career goals.

Our degrees are forward-thinking and practical, offering you comprehensive grounding in theory and a range of skills.
If you choose a single major, you can tailor your program to follow your own interests, drawing upon a variety of disciplines.

Some majors allow you to enhance your learning with a secondary major from within business.

Negatives: Lack of continuity with change of tutors during consecutive courses in third year. You are trying to complete your major work series (four subjects) and change of tutors leads to confusion about expectations. Wastes a fair bit of time and is annoying. Tutors seem overworked and unable to spend time getting familiar with student projects.

My advice to future students: Do the drawing courses as early as possible. They are very time consuming. Perhaps double the hours stated in the course outline. They provide skills which are vital to effective composition of other art works. Certainly don't miss them. It is possible to complete the Fine Arts major without the drawing research units but they are brilliant for skills development and for pushing you to explore additional media and processes.

I am currently studying a double degree in International Relations/International business; so a Bachelor of Arts and a bachelor of humanities.

The positive sides - there are so many! The tutors are incredible and always willing to help, which I’ve found especially useful as I have a disability and have found it to get to class. They’ve been incredibly accommodating to me and others. The tutorials are heavily discussion based, which is handy, but the lectures are quite easy to follow as there are always lecture notes, PowerPoint slides and additional readings.
The one negative aspect is that the assignments and the questions are often very broad. It can be difficult to figure out what they are exactly trying to ask, so pinpointing a discussion question or assignment can be tricky if you don’t understand the topic thoroughly.

My advice to future students is: Take lecture notes one week in advance. You learn more, understand more, and can question more because you’re already ahead!

Negatives include: feelings of isolation; easy to fall behind; hard to catch up; course workload is much more than the 10 hours per week they state; website often plays up; finding information can be tricky; hard to find who to contact; no study breaks if you want to complete on time - 4 study periods per year that run consecutively with no holidays.

My piece of advice for future students is - stick to a schedule resolutely. Try and study at a physical campus. Form study groups. If you fall behind, contact tutors ASAP

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